Publications

How China’s digital currency will thwart US dollar trap and help the world

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 28 December, 2020. The fuller original article with 21 linked notes can be accessed here.

How foreign businesses in China should respond to embedded "Party cells"

Asia Sentinel (paid subscribers only) article of 24 December 2020 quotes me as follows -

"Earlier this week, the Canadian government blocked an attempt by the Chinese state-owned enterprise Shandong Gold Mining to acquire a Canadian operator of an Arctic-circle gold mine on national security grounds, the latest indication of growing western unease over the extent to which the Communist Party is playing a growing political role in commercial enterprises.

“Chinese companies operating abroad should be aware of this new era of anti-Communist Party mindset,” said Andrew Leung, a Hong Kong-based China strategist. “They should be wary of any overt or covert connection with non-commercial political activism. They should keep to the straight and narrow of legitimate commercial benefits not only to themselves, but to wider stakeholders in their host countries. Red cells in western firms have stoked anti-China hysteria.”

"There is concern that some of this is overkill. “As the Chinese saying goes, every curved shadow looks like a snake. It's all part of the China Scare reminiscent of the old Cold War McCarthyism,” Leung said.

Leung holds a more benign view of CCP cells, saying: “Provided that the foreign firms don’t have any hidden political agenda, the presence of party cells often offers timely advice on what would work and what political minefields to avoid in China commercially.”

With Biden, China gets four years to remake itself as a likeable, trusted power. It must seize the moment

My Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 13 November, 2020

The New China Scare - Why America Shouldn’t Panic About Its Latest Challenger

Think-piece dated 16 October 2020 in World Strategic Insights, an online geopolitical platform based in Rome, Italy. 

How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt & Road Initiative defends a Multipolar World Order

A presentation to the 7th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society (IEPAS 2020) held in Lisbon, Portugal, 23-25 September, 2020 (Changed to Zoom format due to Covid-19)

Download How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt and Road defends a multipolar world order (Full-length research paper) 

Download How Eurasian Integration of China's Belt & Road Initiative defends a Multipolar World Order (PDF PowerPoint) (2) (PDF PowerPoint presentation)

Conference Program and Abstract Book (My presentation panel (p.14), List of participants (p.20), Abstract of my paper (p.60))

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Why the new US ‘China scare’ is big on pressure, short on vision

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 5 August, 2020 

HK National Security Law - Death of Hong Kong?

Feature article in June 2020 issue of The Global Analyst, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

Download Global Analyst - HK national security law 

Ten Reasons Why the Coronavirus Crisis Will Spawn a Brave New World of Discord

Feature article in the June 2020 issue of The Global Analyst, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

Download Global Analyst - Covid-19 could usher in a Brave New World

 

USA-China tussle: geo-strategically the report on the death of Hong Kong's autonomy is somewhat exaggerated

Article in  World Geostrategic Insights  dated 2 June, 2020.

A feature article in The Economist dated 6 June, 2020 Hong Kong's Uncertain Future  offers an in-depth look at what is at stake financially for Hong Kong, China, United States and the rest of the world.  

Why China is better prepared than other economic powers for any global crisis

Article dated 9 May, 2020 in RT Question Time, an online media platform, quoting me and a few other commenatators.